HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1081343680
Bassin de Lualaba
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Kolwezi, Mutshatsha
Sub-basin area
182,6km²
Upstream area
15 251km²
Discharge
112,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 365m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lualaba614 km²
- Bassin · #1081344320385 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 164.1 km²90.2% of basin
- 17.8 km²9.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
36 distinct species · 38 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,5°C
Annual rain
1 142mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
1 680mm
AET
950mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
171cm
Forest
4%
Crops
7%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)